THE BENNING

No. 6588.

44 F.Supp. 645 (1942)

THE BENNING. THE ATLAS. UNITED STATES v. WOOD TOWING CORPORATION.

District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

April 21, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Russell T. Bradford, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Norfolk, Va., for United States.

John W. Oast, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., for Wood Towing Corporation and Tug Atlas.


WYCHE, District Judge.

In this case the United States of America, as owner of the derrick boat Benning, has filed a libel in admiralty against the Wood Towing Corporation in personam and its tug Atlas in rem, in which they assert a claim for damages resulting from the foundering of the Benning at about 2:30 o'clock a. m., on December 8, 1939, while in tow of the tug Atlas, at a point northwesterly of Smith Point Lighthouse and near Buoy C-1. A claim for the loss of...

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